Despite state disapproval, superintendents say county quarantine policy working for them
(WorldNews Health)

Sep. 26--When Diamond High School students returned to school last Tuesday, after a shutdown related to COVID-19 quarantines, Superintendent Keith White said they were excited to be back. `They were glad to be back, and excited like the first day of school,` White said. Diamond on Sept. 15 announced that its high school would close for about a week because of a high number of absences related to quarantines. Six students and a teacher in the building tested positive for COVID-19 at that time. Had a new policy from the Newton County Health Department allowing close-contact quarantine students to attend classes been in effect, Diamond wouldn`t have had to close, White said. Instead, almost 90...